Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

President Bush continues to assess the catastrophic damage by air and on the ground in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Bush spent the day meeting with search and rescue personnel, relief commanders, and displaced residents in Mobile, Biloxi, and the New Orleans area. U.S. Congress passed a $10.5 billion relief package for the hurricane ravaged areas. First Lady Laura Bush issued a press statement from an evacuation shelter in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Patient and staff evacuations continue from numerous New Orleans Hospitals. Thousands of patients are being airlifted to a field hospital at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport for triage, staging, and transport to hospitals throughout the United States.

The U.S. Coast Guard and civilian volunteers continue to evacuate thousands of survivors from their flooded homes in New Orleans. The Army Corps of Engineers continues work to repair the damaged levees.

The nation's airlines today began an operation intended to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans. The airlines are volunteering their aircraft and crews for the program. Long convoys loaded with relief supplies arrived throughout the day into New Orleans, while convoys of buses are moving survivors out of the city.

Several large fires are burning in the city and greater New Orleans area. Reports indicate snipers are holding down firefighters. Reports of shots fired with LEO down in the St. Bernard Parish area. Rescue operations are underway. A bus carrying NOLA evauees rolled over in Opelousa, LA.

Links to various news, local and state government websites:

WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
NOLA.com
Inside Houma Today includes shelter and volunteer updates
WLBT.com Jackson MS
WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.
Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports
Gulfport News via Topix.net
WAFB Baton Rouge
Mobile Register via al.com
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser
Pensacola News Journal
St Bernard Local Government
Alabama Homeland Security Volunteers can sign up online
Alabama DOT
Alabama.gov
Louisiana Homeland Security
Louisiana State Police road closure info
State of Mississippi Website has traffic alerts, emergency contact numbers

Streaming Video:

New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002

WWL-TV New Orleans (via WFAA Dallas) - WWL-TV is operating from studios at Louisiana Public Broadcasting. CBS has a relay during the morning and afternoon. When available, use the CBS relay first as they have greater streaming capacity. Yahoo has also provided a relay.

WDSU-TV New Orleans - The news staff has started to return to temporary news studios near New Orleans. However, expect evening coverage from Hearst-Argyle sister stations WAPT Jackson and WESH Orlando when the New Orleans staff needs to take a break.

WGNO-TV New Orleans - New Orleans' ABC affiliate has returned to the air with WBRZ-TV and launched video streaming with continuous Katrina coverage.

WPMI-TV Mobile, AL - WPMI is webcasting from 5:30am - 10:30pm CDT. When off air, you can view pre-recorded reports on demand. This feed is often unreliable.

WKRG-TV Mobile, AL - This station is providing good coverage of the situation to the east in Mississippi and Alabama. However, the station is now signing off at around 10:30pm CDT like WWL and WPMI.

WJTV-TV Jackson, MS - The CBS affiliate in Jackson is providing live coverage for both the Jackson area and south Mississippi (knowing a lot of media in that area is off the air).

United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.

Related FR Threads:

FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread FReeper Check In thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
Looting Begins In New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread
Martial Law Declared in New Orleans

Due to the number of requests to assist, the following list of some charities is provided.
This is not intended as an endorsement for any of the charities.

www.redcross.org or 1-800 HELP NOW - note: website is slow, and lines are busy
Salvation Army - 1-800-SAL-ARMY or Salvation Army currently looking for in-state volunteers - (888)363-2769
Operation Blessing: (800) 436-6348.
America's Second Harvest: (800) 344-8070.
Catholic Charities USA: (800) 919-9338, or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: (800) 848-5818.
Church World Service: (800) 297-1516 or online at www.churchworldservice. org.
Lutheran Disaster Response: (800) 638-3522.
Nazarene Disaster Response: (888) 256-5886.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: (800) 872-3283.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accepting donations at its 3,800 stores and Web site, www.walmart.com.
National Black Home Educators Resource Association http://www.nbhera.org/ Southern Baptist: NAMB - http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse - http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

[WoodstockCat]

How is that bizarre logic?

First, just about every time a helicopter has landed people have started to rush it. I understand as much as I can from afar that people are desperate but there has to be some order and steps to distribution of food and water. Let's say they had let off some pallets of food and water at the convention center a couple a days ago and asked for people to share it. How would that have gone for the most part? How many poeple would have died being run over to get to the distribution point? Or as it is being passed around the realization in the crowd is that some are not going to get any.

Did you see ANY indication from those folks that they were thinking about the younger ones first and not themselves? I lived in Miss for eight years, I understand the heat, humidity, etc. One of the worst things that was done was just to have people milling around in the open especially during the middle of the day on an concrete overpass.

[Jrabbit]

lol

[BlackRain]

Listen bozo,

Turn on MSNBC right now.

Federal authorities are now dropping supplies to trapped folks in New Orleans.

I guess you were wrong, hmmmm...

[LadyBuzz]

I think we are all going to be SHOCKED when the numbers start to come out - they will have to release some kind of numbers soon by FEMA law as I understand from another post

[bonfire]

Everyone is an expert.

[warsaw44]

As far as I know both broke. I also heard on the radio the US Army / Engineers has attempted to drop massive sandbags in sections where the levees had broken. I heard this I think three (?) days ago.

[tcrlaf]

*** "Why cants they stay here in this state? ***

"I don't care WHAT they do, just don't send away my VOTER BASE!!!!"

[Uncle Ike]

"At least he's crying with HAPPINESS today."

Won't last long -- Asman just finally got through to him that there are people in New Orleans out of his eyeshot that need rescuing. Sounded like a real revelation to him.

[Types_with_Fist]

"I'm begging all the powers that be to tell Louisiana not to turn our people away."

Let me translate... people=voters.

[bonfire]

That was uncalled for and you owe her an apology. Do you realize who has started all these hurricane threads??

[tiredoflaundry]

Cut the crap....... Nauti is no BOZO!

[DouglasKC]

Did you all see the picture of the family in the pool?? They looked like they were having a good time, well provisioned apparently and ready to survive.

[morans14]

I love Ben Stein. He can always be counted on to deliver a straight dose of reality and common sense.

[bonfire]

Oh great.

[McGavin999]

I think Fox made a HUGH mistake, taking his show off temporarily to show this hurricane coverage...

HIS show does everything the best on FOX...they are really messing up lately.

I plan on writing to Roger and telling him that I have been a FOX viewer since 1997. I had to twist arms to finally get access to FOX and even then I had to pay a huge premium to get it on Direct TV. I was one of the first in Phoenix to get them.

He needs to seriously think about replacing the head of the New York news division. The coverage was horrible. First of all they sent rank amatures, the first couple of days was a joke, they stood around screaming like a bunch of old ladies instead of doing a decent job. If Shep had gone over to where those buses were parked, arranged to get people onto those buses and out of town it would have made for spectacular TV. Instead, he moaned on the same bridge for days and finally had a hysterical breakdown. Same for Whoraldo.

FOX could have taken advantage of the good relations they developed with the military and been taken on some of the rescues, been at or near the command centers, been flying along the routes the trucks were taking on their way into the disaster area.

Nope, in my mind that guy needs to lose his job and I'm seriously hoping Roger will do exactly that.

[MarMema]

Tell that comforting thought to families of those who died do to dehyradtion and the mother's of dead babies.

You don't have to airdrop to the convention center, but the smaller groups waiting in remote areas that we keep reading about would have been happy to get an airdrop.

Additionally in the very flooded regions with people still on the roof, airdrops of floating survival kits and flotation devices would have saved lives.

NO has or had a director of emergency management services hauling in a nice salary. Appointed by Nagin...haven't seen this person or heard a peep about him in the last week.

[NonValueAdded]

There was a post earlier from a DJ trapped at the convention center. The way he described it, there WAS much more order at the CC. They had people lined up women and children first,m then elderly. They tried to help with the supply drop only to be pushed back at gunpoint. Instead, stuff was being dropped from an overpass with most of it being rendered unusable. You can understand how the SD disorder made the troops react the way they did, but there is at least one report that says women and children WERE considered at the CC.

[LadyBuzz]

yep - exactly - voter base is dwindling

[WoodstockCat]

General Honore: "The storm gets a vote... We're not stuck on stupid."

Wow! That ought to be the quote of the day!

[Heatseeker]

Congratulations! Your degree in political psychology is in the mail. ;)